Literature on the Internet
This page of links was drawn up for use at the Web of Words workshop conducted by Cornwell Internet at the 2001 Durham Literature Festival. The internet has grown and changed since 2001, but a surprising number of the links are still valid, and the list may also have some documentary interest.
Libraries of On-Line Texts
- The British Library:
- www.bl.uk/
- Gallica (Bibliothèque national de France)
- gallica.bnf.fr
- Bibliotheca Augustana
- www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html (in Latin!)
- Index to Online Great Books in English translation:
- books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
- Project Gutenberg
- promo.net/pg
Publishers' Sites
- Penguin Books:
- www.penguin.co.uk
- Random House:
- www.randomhouse.co.uk
Warning: Flash animation
- HarperCollins:
- www.fireandwater.com - now www.harpercollins.co.uk/
- Publishing service provider:
- www.Xlibris.com
- Flambard Press
- www.flambardpress.co.uk
- Diamond Twig
- www.diamondtwig.co.uk
Book review sites
- Books Unlimited (part of The Guardian's website)
- - now at http://books.guardian.co.uk/
- Huntress Book Reviews
- www.huntressreviews.com
- The Bookdragon Review
- www.bookdragonreview.com - no longer available
Stuff to read online:
- Infinity Plus:
- www.infinityplus.co.uk
- Clockwork Storybook
- www.clockworkstorybook.com - no longer available
- netLibrary
- www.netlibrary.com Need to create a (free) account and log in
- - including hypertexts:
- 253 :
- www.ryman-novel.com
- Hyperizons hypertext fiction:
- www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html
Finding stuff to read
Webrings
- Ringsurf:
- www.ringsurf.com
- Book-centred webrings are listed at:
- www.ringsurf.com/Arts_and_Humanities/Literature/
Reading Groups
- Reading group / newsletter
- www.WhatAmIGoingToRead.com - no longer available
- Oadby Crime Readers Group
- http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/community/libraries/
county_libraries/oadbywigston_libraries/oadby_library/
oadby_library_crime_group.htm
Search Engines
Suggestion: Stephen King wrote a novella called Riding the Bullet which you could download for free from the Internet. How successful was this? Try to find out more by using the search engines...
- Google
- www.google.com
- AltaVista
- www.altavista.com
- Excite
- www.excite.co.uk
- Yahoo
- www.yahoo.co.uk
Bookshops
- Amazon
- UK: www.amazon.co.uk
- US: www.amazon.com
- Bol
- www.bol.com
- Fnac
- www.fnac.com
- Search for second-hand and rare books at Able Book Exchange
- www.abebooks.com
- or at bibliofind:
- www.bibliofind.com - now part of Amazon.
E-book stores
- A mainly US resource reviewing Ebooks and providing many links to providers
- www.knowbetter.com
- e-book store offering various texts (including a sequel to Picnic at Hanging Rock)
which can be purchased either as attachments to e-mail or on floppy (in jewel case):
- www.zeus-publications.com
Some miscellaneous book-related sites
- The Crime Writers' Association
- www.theCWA.co.uk
- Tangled Web
- www.twbooks.co.uk
- Romancing the Web, Authors & Readers:
- www.romancetheweb.com - no longer a books site: try Romantic Times instead!
- LibbyBooks.com
- www.libbybooks.com/e-books
- Locate Authors
- www.geocities.com/SoHo/Bistro/1742 - now part of Huntress Book Reviews
- The Mysterious Home Page:
- www.webfic.com/mysthome/mysthome.htm - now at www.cluelass.com/MystHome/
Here are some we prepared earlier...
- Anne Fine
- www.annefine.co.uk
- Chaz Brenchley
- www.chazbrenchley.co.uk
- The Outremer Website
- www.outremer.co.uk
- Jack Drum Arts
- www.jackdrum.co.uk
- The Shadow Gallery
- www.shadowgallery.co.uk
- Vane Women
- www.vanewomen.co.uk
- Durham Writers
- www.DurhamWriters.org.uk
And finally:
This workshop is part of Mind's Eye, the 2001 Durham Literature Festival, whose own website is at www.literaturefestival.co.uk
